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Recycling - helping the environment, or helping the council?
Mark1974
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What's your views on recycling, is it helping the environment or just saving the council some work?
I recycle everything I can, and everything that goes on my box gets properly washed out first. In my brown bin goes paper and cardboard.
Some people moan about having different bins for different waste but personally I don't see the hardship in separating my waste.
What's your opinion?
I recycle everything I can, and everything that goes on my box gets properly washed out first. In my brown bin goes paper and cardboard.
Some people moan about having different bins for different waste but personally I don't see the hardship in separating my waste.
What's your opinion?
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If the council cared about the environment, they would train their staff better to pick the litter up that plagues Folkestone on a daily basis.
Cut backs, and lots of councils are thinking about selling off parks, but the good news is looks like the government is bringing back weekly collections on black bins
We only do it because it means the bin doesn't get as full in the two weeks between it getting emptied. We don't wash the tins and bottle out though.
Some people complain about fortnightly collections, but having had them for a few years now, both the ordinary and recycling bins (both garden and recycling) are like this here.
http://www.localgov.co.uk/Councils-urge-Government-to-freeze-landfill-tax/35791
And if the mafia had dreamed this stuff up,they would have never bothered with murder,racketeering and prostitution.
Here's what you need to know
15 - 20 years ago,the council tax was a hell of a lot cheaper and they sorted out the rubbish themselves.
After you sort it out for them,they also often sell what's been recycled and make serious money from it.
In theory the rubbish collection part of council tax should be cheaper than ever.
If you mean landfill/non-recyclable waste bins, my council have collected them weekly for as long as I can remember.
All the waste goes to the same place apparently and the council sort it further, especially as most green (recycle) bins contains rubbish which shouldn't in there, but is covered up by allowed materials.
It certainly doesn't help my council anyway. I think everybody - residents and council staff would rather it if things were simpler but ultimately, why shouldn't we recycle?
I don't understand the disdain for sustainability. If I throw away a bit of paper into the bin it's resources are gone forever - whereas if I put it in the paper recycling bin, a lot of it - if not all will be usable again. It should make you feel good
Surely people don't like creating wastage? Or maybe some just simply don't give a shit about the planet - and therefore future generations?
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Once a fortnight they drive around with a bin lorry and chuck all of the carefully sorted rubbish into the back mixing it all together.>:(
What's wrong with the council making money? it doesn't go into someones pocket but back into public funds to help pay for all the services which they provide.
Really ?
You do surprise me.
It annoys me when they waste our council tax on vanity projects such as the vile Step Short Arch in Folkestone.
Instead of training staff to pick up litter, they'd be more effective if they issued litter wardens with rifles and instructions to shoot to kill anyone spotted dropping litter. Win win - the litter problem quickly disappears, along with the sort of scum who find it acceptable to drop litter.
This is how I feel too, I mainly trust that they're doing the 'right' thing and actually recycling the items we bother to put in the recycling bins/bags. I would be very unimpressed if I found out it was all just being dumped in the landfill.
No, of course not. So the idea that anything that can reduce council tax bills is inherently right and proper is clearly incorrect.
Is it immoral to have people do the work of councils... I think it probably is. People are clearly required to do work for their council, failure to do this work incurs "sanctions". Doing work that is beyond that which is absolutely necessary for the council to collect the rubbish.
Doing work that does not take into account personal circumstances and health matters.
Commercial and industrial waste, which constitutes the vast majority of our waste, is not sorted at source but is mechanically sorted and subsequently recycled at large scale waste treatment facilities operated by the likes of Biffa and Veolia.
And the idea of councils having to pay a landfill tax that goes straight back to central government, the same government that grants local councils 75% of its budget, is just plain silly.
I recycle everything I can. But I see no point in washing everything first.